| Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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My English is not so good. But I really want to share my point of view. I think this song is about being doubtful about the angel. It's blasphemy. When I first listened to this song I immediately thought that there could be some connection between the cover of the album and this song. Beside, the MV also makes me more positive on my point of view. "She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak" Pisces is thought to be compassionate. So maybe it's like when you are weak and you want some help, then an angel look down at you from haven with compassion. "I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks" Heart-shaped box could be a metaphor of the belief in angel. You believe in angel and you think you will get your salvation. "I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap" 'magnet' 'tar pit trap' these words allude that the belief in angel is nonsense but very attractive. When people are weak, they will likely turn to religion(so do I) and the belief in religion can be very strong. "I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black" You so believe in angel and you think you can even do gross things for her. Then it comes to chorus. "Hey Wait, I've got a little complain" You still want to believe in angel but she offered you nothing. So you start to complain. 'a little complain" is like that you believe in someone for so long but one day you find things are not what you believe to be. You want to cast your doubt but you don't want to screw your faith. "Forever in debt to your priceless advice" It's pretty ironic, the angel gave you advice and sign but it didn't work at all. It's like "God loves his children", but still many good(innocent) people died for no good reason.(like the lady mentioned in Lake of Fire) "Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet" I thought of those plants feed on insect when I listened to this sentence. Orchid is beautiful and attractive, but it can be fatal when you step in its trap. Imagine this: a fly gets trapped by such a plant with good-smelling juice. The fly seems to find some food to sustain its life, but it doesn't know that's a trap. Any fly that flies into this trap will never be able to leave(no one will be forgiven) , and then get killed and digested. So I would say that the angel herself is like a meat-eating orchid. She feeds on your belief but she give you no salvation, instead, she brings you death(when her wears your out and your mental world collapse, you are likely to choose to suicide) "cut myself on angel hair and baby's breath" This one I can't quite understand. "Broken hymen of your highness I'm left black" This alludes that you realize your questioning on angel is blasphemy and you are so afraid of being left black(get punished). So here comes the praying but still in an ironic way: "Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back" Angel can't have umbilical noose, they are from heaven and shouldn't have the same body like our human beings with flesh and bones. So it's pretty ironic and even more blasphemy to pray like this. Think about the cover of this album, an angel with human body, floating over a dry and shattered land. How could an angel be like that? Angel should be perfect with no anatomy. Maybe Kurt was trying to say that there's no angel and no salvation, believing in that will only make things worse cause you trust it so much and it becomes your emotional support until one day you realize it's just a lie. PS: I don't know how much the MV relates to the song. But as you can see, in the MV, Jesus dies on a hospital bed. That could be strong sign that Kurt had lost his faith. I believe in God. I think Kurt could not blame God for all his depression because Kurt use drugs, it's like trade one's soul to evil. There's no salvation since heroin takes control of his mind. It's tragic. |
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| U2 – The Unforgettable Fire Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[QuirkyGirl:14573] @[QuirkyGirl:14573] Wow. I first listened to this song when I was a high school student, I completely had no idea about song's menacing. Now I am I think this is a very good interpretation and I like the way you analyze the song. But there's still some part of the lyrics I don't quite understand. Why says " stay tonight in a lie". The atomic bomb was dropped at around 8.00am(perhaps Bono got the time wrong? or there's another explanation?) and why it mentions "lie", what does "lie" refer to? |
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